Future Past

by Robin Winter

The first man he murdered returns to teach Ash Tarberrn how to be human.

There can be no forgiveness for Ash Tarberrn, no salvation for the men, women and children he slaughtered by infecting them with his deadly virus. When his past comes to confront him and demand his service, he steps into the temptation of time travel for his possible redemption. The violation of time will cost his world, his companions, and him—a price beyond imagining.

Unknown Binding

First published May 1, 2013

About the author

Robin started writing with a fully illustrated manuscript 'Chickens and their Diseases' when in second grade in Nigeria. Some years later she and her family were evacuated as the Nigerian Civil War began in 1967. It is from her memories of Nigeria that her novel Night Must Wait, released in 2012 by Imajin Books, evolved. Her first science fiction novel, Future Past was released May first, 2013 from Eternal Press. Next, in late April 2015 her thriller/science fiction novel Watch the Shadows will be published by White Whisker Press. Think of a strong smart young woman in Southern California planning to become a scientist, who is faced by the odd gradual disappearance of the local homeless, and a sequence of strange events concerning ducks-- which mount to a personally threatening point. Call it science fiction with aliens for garnish.
Robin Winter has published science fiction and horror stories, won awards for writing, and in 2011 had a collection of her short stories performed in Los Angeles' New Short Fiction Series.
As a child Robin lived in a number of places beginning with 'N'; Nebraska, Nigeria, New Hampshire and New York. Now living in California, she has no intention of going back to any of the preceding.
Her other career centers on oil painting, both landscape and figure. Her husband, a paleocarpologist, corrects the science in both her paintings and her writings, and has acquired considerable skill in ducking flying objects. They have a teenage daughter who also loves to write, and three cats who don't.
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or at her blog: http://www.winterobin.com/
Visit her web page at http://www.robinwinter.net/ or robin-winter.com and
find her on Twitter @winterobin13

Reviews

[Rob · Rating 4 out of 5]

A time machine and four men who forget that a time machine is a wicked genie. Be careful HOW you wish.



Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? What is my purpose? Two men know their answers. They were created to go to Hell.

The best science fiction is hard core with a heart, the hardware and the software of life. They are myths, and, of course, like us, the heroes are flawed. Ms Winter tosses us in with two such heroes, time travelers who, inside, are both morlock and eloi. Both are deviant and innocent and proud. Together with two comrades, they chase across time. But the holocaust they had unleased follows, outwits them. With them, we travel through time. We watch their hearts as they try to make amends, before there is no one left to forgive them, before Hell becomes a better place to be then Earth.

I thoroughly enjoyed the trip.

[Robin Leigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

As an editor and writer, I don’t get as much time to read for pleasure as I’d like, but I couldn’t wait to finally tuck into Robin Winter’s “Future Past”. I first heard a snippet of this book many years ago at the esteemed Santa Barbara Writers Conference, and Robin didn’t even know what genre she had. I DID! Scifi thriller, my fave since I was very young. I was lucky to years later be in a writers group in her home as she finished crafting this book, and it was so well-written that few of us had much critique for her! In the intellectual vein of Asimov and Bradbury and Clarke, this is a tale of apocalypse and back with more twists than a Magic Mountain rollercoaster. Once I started, I could not put it down, and it was worth every sleepless moment.

[Stephen Russell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Winter shows the strength and versatility of her writer's voice in Future Past. Published shortly after her debut novel Night Must Wait, in which the setting offers a strong sense of place as a separate character, the science fiction themes of Future Past haunts the reader long after the book is finished. Her first person approach with Ash gives chilling insight into a man-made world with apocalyptic consequences. Winter's prose is crisp and her pacing sharp, giving fans a science fiction a thrill that is worth the spooky ride.

[Kimberly Coghlan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read!